Crime does not pay as well as politics.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.